Mr. Fridolin and his luck

Mr. Fridolin and his luck is a novella by Ferdinand von Saar that appeared in 1894 .

content

The house and castle manager Fridolin Kohout, who lives in a castle somewhere in Moravia that has mostly been uninhabited by his rule, almost as sole ruler and yet as a diligent servant, is one of the few people who can be considered happy. Over a few glasses of Pilsner , he tells the frame storyteller, a writer who enjoys hospitable accommodation at the castle, how his passion once wanted to throw him off track.

Internal narration

Fridolin is a house servant. Among the other servants is the very young Moravian laundress Milada, for whom he feels a tendency. But his calculating mind prevents a love affair, so that the disappointed girl allows herself to be seduced by a windy servant of a Polish prince. She gives birth to a child who she lets die after birth. For this, Milada is imprisoned for three years. After her release, she knows how to make Fridolin jointly responsible for what happened and to bring him to the point where he finally prepares to emigrate with her to America and to abandon his rule. At the last moment, however, Fridolin's equilibrium is saved when Milada lets herself be entrusted to the wealthy seventy-year-old miller from the village of Lettowitz. During his reign, Fridolin was later married to the nanny, the faithful Katinka.

expenditure

• In the anthology: F. v. S., roses in the cypress grove. Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1927.
• Reclams Universal Library 7583, Leipzig 1944, epilogue Max von Millenkovich-Morold
• In the anthology: F. v. S., "Requiem of Love" and other short stories. Ed. & Introduction Hans-Heinrich Reuter. Dieterich (Dietrichsche Verlagbuchhandlung), Leipzig 1958 a. Ö. row: Collection Dietrich 220. Again Schibli-Doppler & Carl Schünemann, Bremen. 3. Edition. 1988, ISBN 3-7350-0036-3
• In the anthology: F. v. S., Kostenitz Castle . Stories from old Austria. Nymphenburger, Munich 1966. Afterword by Kurt Meyer
• In the anthology: F. v. S., The Fall of Man and Other Stories. Bouvier Herbert Grundmann, Bonn 1983. Afterword & Ed. Karl Konrad Polheim ISBN 3-416-01763-3
• In the anthology: F. v. S., novellas from Austria. Series: Austrian Library. Edited by Roman Rocek. Böhlau, Vienna & People and World, Berlin (GDR) 1986
• Reprint (single): Tredition, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8424-1216-3 .

interpretation

• Lydia Beate Kaiser (Ed.): Mr. Fridolin and his luck. (= Ferdinand von Saar. Critical texts and interpretations. 5). Max Niemeyer Verlag , Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-484-10689-1 .

Web links

• Mr. Fridolin and his luck in the Gutenberg-DE project
• A total of 20 pieces in 4 parts on Zeno.org

notes

1. ↑ also: Innocens; Marianne; The stone knocker; Lieutenant Burda; The Reichegg house; The Fall, The Brothers ; Dissonances (1900); The benefactors. Total 10 pieces
2. ↑ The editor and afterword writer was a National Socialist, the extensive afterword is stringent and falsified in this sense
3. ↑ Contains in addition to the cover story: Innocens . Marianne. The stone knocker . Vae victis! Tambi. Lieutenant Burda. Seligmann Hirsch. Kostitz Castle. Requiem of love. Doctor Trojan . The Habrovan Brewer. The marriage of Mr. Stäudl. The beneficiaries - all in all 14 stories. Also included: Explanations. The work of Ferdinand von Saar.
4. ↑ Lieutenant Burda; Mr. Fridolin ...; Requiem of love; Costitz Castle
5. ↑ Contains: Requiem of Love; Fridolin; Vae victis !; The marriage of Mr. Stäudl ; The Habrovan Brewer
6. ↑ also as Amazon Kindle ; Print from other publishers too. Contains 8 texts: Marianne; The violinist ; Vae victis !; Lieutenant Burda; Fridolin ...; The fall of man; The Habrovan Brewer; The benefactors